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RefNoAP/38/21/1
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TitleUnpublished manuscript, 'On various phenomena of refraction through semi-lenses or prisms producing anomalies in the illusion of stereoscopic images' by Antoine Claudet
Date1856
DescriptionHaving observed that photographic pictures representing flat surfaces when examined in the refracting stereoscope have the appearance of concavity, Claudet has endeavoured to discover the cause of this phenomenon, and to explain it. In order to ascertain if this peculiar effect can be attributable to some imperfection in the lenses of the camera obscura which had produced the photographic pictures, or to a property of the stereoscope itself, he tests the stereoscope without photographic images. For this experiment he places under each tube of the stereoscope a diagram composed of vertical and horizontal lines crossing each other. He describes his experimental results.

Includes 23 figures in the text. Annotations in pencil.

Subject: Physics / Optics

Received 22 April 1856. Read 8 May 1856.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 8 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On various phenomena of refraction through semi-lenses or prisms, producing anomalies in the illusion of stereoscopic images'.

A version of this paper was published by Claudet in the Journal of the Franklin Institute: Claudet, Antoine. 'On various phenomena of refraction through semi-lenses or prisms, producing anomalies in the illusion of stereoscopic images.' The Journal of the Franklin Institute, volume 63, number 4 (1857), pp. 265-269.
Extent15p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk and graphite pencil on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1016/S0016-0032(57)90660-9
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1856.0032
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7679Claudet; Antoine Jean Francois (1797 - 1867)1797 - 1867
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